Autobiography anthony kiedis point break

I finished the research process for the Point Break article today and wanted to share the news with a brief update. I feel very relieved. I’ve watched so many interviews and behind-the-scenes videos, and read so many articles… the amount of material I’ve compiled feels kind of overwhelming. It’s like cleaning your closet—the first step is dragging everything out into the open so you can get your hands around what you even have. And then you sit surrounded by heaping piles of stuff, feeling a little dejected, wondering how you can possibly bring order to this mess, and maybe wishing you’d left it alone in the first place.

There is a ton more I could research, but the law of diminishing returns has already kicked in. It’d be easy to keep researching and putting off the work itself, which is just another way of procrastinating. When you've read 6 accounts of Patrick Swayze getting hooked on skydiving while filming—to the point that the studio had to intervene and basical

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Anthony Kiedis&#; &#;Scar Tissue&#; Headed to the Big Screen

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis&#; stories of drug addiction and unusual relationships are making their way to the silver screen. Universal Pictures has optioned the singer&#;s memoir, Scar Tissue, to develop it into a biopic, according to Deadline. The producers include Kiedis, Chilis manager Guy Oseary, and Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13).

The source material, one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, could provide a story that&#;s far darker than most music biopics. Keidis&#; book, cowritten with Larry Sloman, found him reflecting on his dad, who introduced him to drugs, the death of founding Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak of a heroin overdose, the many relationships he had over the years, and how he and bassist loppa kept the band going through all the turmoil.

In , Kiedis told The Sunhe initially regretted the book&#;s tell-all natur. &#;I did regret the book for a wh

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Anthony Kiedis

American singer (born )

Anthony Kiedis (KEE-dis; born November 1, ) is an American musician and lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis and his fellow grupp members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in

Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his mother, and then moved shortly before his twelfth birthday to live with his father in Hollywood. While attending Fairfax High School, Kiedis befriended students Flea and Hillel Slovak, who were members of the band Anthym. After high school, Kiedis took classes at UCLA, but dropped out in his sophomore year.

When Kiedis received an offer to be the opening act for a local band, he enlisted Flea, Slovak, and drummer Jack Irons. After a show under the name Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, the band progressed and the lineup eventually became the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has recorded thirteen studio albums with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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